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Fort Vancouver Mobile - A video overview

Courtesy of: Research Assistant Aaron May of Washington State University Vancouver's Creative Media and Digital Culture program. Produced in 2011.

Video highlights from the apps (36-minute version)

This montage provides a sampling of some of the video media in the Fort Vancouver Mobile apps. This app is much more than just a video distribution system, but these videos show the variety of content, from expositional segments to new journalism to those intended to prompt the development of interactive narratives.

“Right now, this tree is the last above-ground remnant of
Hudson’s Bay Company operations here at Fort Vancouver.”

Clip 3 Cromwell continues (0:17 – 0:52):

“And this was the quartermaster’s depot. So a whole string
of the who’s who of the 19th century U.S. Army actually came here.
So less than 100 feet away from here, Ulysses S. Grant was residing. He had to
have seen this tree on his daily walk down to the wharf to check in on the
quartermaster’s stores. He probably walked right by it. In fact, the main road
connecting Vancouver Barracks to the wharf was basically just on the east side
of this tree. And to me, it’s just amazing looking at the history of development
in this area that this tree has survived.”

We also are beta testing The Grand Emporium of the West tablet app, designed for use in middle school history classes. If you want to help, please download the app and send us a detailed report of your experience. That email is
here. Thanks!